Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

Am I missing something?

Yes.
As I explained there are four folios missing from this quire, and we don't know when they were lost. So even if the red ink were added years after the text, you can't determine that the red ink was added to 161 stars: we don't know if there were more stars with red ink on those missing folios.
There is nothing that proves that the folios were lost before the red ink was applied, and additionally, as I mentioned in my post, even if we discount those folios, there are 163 stars with red ink, not 161 as you claim. This is not my view, but an objective count, cross-checked by other forum members. Sorry if 163 does not fit your theory, but that is just what the numbers are.

Back in the days when I had a computer that was able to distinguish colors, I counted that there were 161 VMS paragraphs where, immediately to the left, there was a star that had some red coloring. But if you say there are 163 such paragraphs, then so be it. Mathematics was never one of my strong points.